February, 2004

More about me..

“Darien recently returned to Australia joining Microsoft Brisbane in December 2010, after being based in Microsoft Malaysia for 8 years, and generally being based in Asia for the last 20 years. He has been involved in IT since his school days and holds various Microsoft certifications in Core Infrastructure, Application Platform and Database Technology. Additionally, he holds an MSc in Software Engineering from Staffordshire University. His current areas of expertise are the Windows Server Application Platform, Security and Enterprise Application Integration including Mainframe Integration. Darien is currently the Application Platform Solution Specialist for all things Microsoft, and when he’s not producing or mixing albums in his Windows-based digital recording studio at home, he’s helping Australia’s largest customers realise business value and improve their customers’ lives through Microsoft-based solutions and software.”

Kinda funny name, but I was honored to give a security presentation on Microsoft's latest security initiatives and progress, at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (Ah... that's what it stands for). In conjunction...

This morning, I had the pleasure of speaking with Unisys at the launching of their new ES 7000 server at the JW Marriot. Once again, it's an amazing offering for those customers with workloads (high memory utilization etc..) suited to scaling up their...

I've just completed delivering a week of training on the next major version of our integration product, BizTalk Server 2004 . As part of the products that I am responsible for in Microsoft, I've had access to early builds of BizTalk Server 2004 for some...

My legacy in blog form, that is. And it's largely due to my new friend, Cameron Reilly , who I had the pleasure of meeting during a recent trip to the Cornell Theory Center in Ithaca, New York. During a lecture we both attended on MPI , I was to become...